Verkhtrib. Russian acronym for Supreme Tribunal (1918-1922), which tried the most important cases in the early Soviet period.
Vikzhel. Railroad workers union, opposed Bolsheviks after 1917 Revolution; acronym stands for All-Russian Executive Committee of Railroad Workers Union.
VSNKh. See Supreme Council of the Economy.
VTsIK. Acronym for All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the highest state body of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the largest Soviet state, from 1917 to 1937, when it was succeeded by the Presidium of the Republic’s Supreme Soviet. The national equivalent of VTsIK was TsIK, the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. (1922-1938), which became the Presidium of the national Supreme Soviet.
Workers Opposition. Bolshevik faction that sought greater trade-union control of industry and greater democracy within Party; its activities were condemned at Tenth Party Congress in 1921, and some leaders were later expelled from Party and arrested.
Zek. Prison slang for prisoner, derived from zaklyuchenny, Russian word for “prisoner.”
Zemstvo. Local government unit in prerevolutionary Russia.
Index
Page numbers in boldface refer to the Glossary.
Abakumov, Viktor S., \\2n, 126, 145, 154, 157, 158-159, 297, 298, 520-21, 553, 554n, 621
Abrikosova, A. I., 37
Adamova (Adamova-Sliozberg) see Sliozberg Against Capital Punishment, 301
Agranov, Yakov S., 95n, 621 agriculture, 32, 33, 55-59 passim, 64,
67, 80, 420 subversion of, in Criminal Code,
64-65, 67 see also collectives; famine; Kady
case; kulaks; peasants Aikhenvald, Yuli I., 372, 621
Akhmatova (Gorenko), Anna A., 95n, 621
Alalykin, 445
Aldanov (Landau), Mark A., 220, 621
Aldan-Semyonov, Andrei I., 540n, 621
Aleksandrov, A. I., 126, 621
Aleksandrov, Vasily, 250n
Aleksei Mikhailovich, Tsar, 93, 242, 432
Alexander I, Tsar, 433
Alexander II, Tsar, 144-45 assassination attempts on, 132,
144, 287 Alexander III, Tsar, 134
Alliluyev family, 100, 621, 642
All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK), 307, 313, 321, 344, 352, 354, 365, 366-67, 436, 437, 438, 641
All-Russian Executive Committee of Railroad Workers Union (Vikzhel), 28, 641
“All-Union Bureau of the Mensheviks”: trial, 49, 399-407
Altai region, legend about, 270
Altshuller, 442
Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr V., 220, 621
amnesty: (1905), 190-91 (1912), 272 (1919), 358-59, 360 (1920s), 39 (1927), 271 (1937; expected but not received), 68
during World War II, 81 (1945), 78, 190n, 191n, 251, 273n, 27 Sn; rumors of, for political prisoners, 271, 272, 273, 274, 280, 608
Anarchists, 30, 36, 41, 191, 409, 460, 463, 474
Anders, Wladyslaw, 77, 621
Andersen, Erik Arvid, 521-22, 551-54
Andreyashin, 163
Andreyev, Leonid N., 44, 621
Andreyushkin, Pakhomi L, 134n, 621
Anichkov, Vasily L, 443
Anichkova, Yelizaveta Y., 443
Anti-Soviet Agitation (ASA: also KR A /Counter-Revolutionary Activity), 60, 75, 80-81, 83, 284
Antonov-Saratovsky, Vladimir P., 373w, 376, 399, 621-22
Ardamatsky, 367w, 370w
Arkadyev, Konstantin S., 452-53 army see military forces arrests, 3-16
in foreign countries, 9, 263-64, 266 quotas for, 11, 71, 272 searches, 5-6, 7
see also denunciation; informers; interrogations arrests, mass, 11-12, 14, 24-28, 37-60 (1918-22), 28-37, 39, 300, 302-03, 306-67 passim, 371-72, 434-35 (1929-35), 24, 25, 47-59, 437 (1936-38), 24, 25, 60, 68-76, 130, 247, 252n, 408-19, 438, 535-36, 579 (1939-41), 76-80 (1942-46), 24-25, 60, 61, 63, 77-86, 110, 142, 164, 221n, 237-51 passim, 255-56, 259-66 passim, 270-71, 441, 507, 566, 579, 602 (1947-48), 25, 86, 89-90 (1948-50), 60, 90-92, 250, 264, 566 see also nationalities and ethnic groups; religious persecution; individual groups ASA see Anti-Soviet Agitation
Aschenbrenner, Jupp, Win Austria: World War II, Soviet émigrés,
85, 566 Austrians (in U.S.S.R.;
Schutzbundlers), 58, 608, 640 Averbakh, I. L., xii, 622
Babayev, 29 In
Babich, Aleksandr, 146, 445
Babushkin, Ivan V., 6n, 622
Bakhtin, Mikhail M., 51, 622
Bakunin, Mikhail A., 132, 623
Baladin, 154
Bandera, Stepan (and “Banderovtsy”), 86, 91, 519, 622
Basmachi, 38, 637
Bazhenov, Boris, 370n
Bedny, Demyan, 488, 622
Bek, 346, 347, 348, 349
Belinsky, Vissarion G., 197, 622
Belov, Viktor A. (“Emperor Mikhail”), 228-34, 607-08
Belyayev, 557
Benes, Eduard, 260w
Benois, Aleksandr N., 262, 622
Berbenyev, 163
Berdyayev, Nikolai A., 37, 130, 262, 372, 622 Berg, 364-65
Beria, Lavrenti P., 76, 145, 157, 158, 159, 189, 291, 622
Beridze, 311
Berlin: blockade, 260w, 553
World War II, 235
Bernshtein, Ans, 10, 545, 588-89
Biche, 425
Biron (Biren; Count Ernst Johann Buhren), 93-94, 622
Black Hundreds, 312, 339, 637
Black Marias see prisoner transport, Black Marias
Blaginin, 115-16
blatnye/blatari see thieves
Blednov, Zhora, 9
Blok, Aleksandr A., 188, 622
Blucher, Vasily K., 230, 622
Blyumkin, Yakov G., 370n, 622
Bobrishchev-Pushkin, 350
Bogdan, Fyodor, 281
Boiko, 43
Boky, Gleb I., 281, 622
Bolsheviks, 34, 49w, 129, 130, 355, 359, 361, 402, 409, 410n, 434, 641
Bonch-Bruyevich, Vladimir D., 323, 622
Bondar, 116w
Bondarenko, Pavel, 244
Bondarin, Sergei A., 210, 622
Borodko, 138-39
Borshch, 265-66
Borushko, Pavel, Ivan, and Stepan, 74
Brest-Litovsk, peace treaty of, 343, 356
Bubnov, 604
Buchenwald, 238
Budenny, Semyon M., 51, 622
Bugayenko, Natalya I., 59
Bukharin, Nikolai I., 101/i, 132n, 190, 299, 358, 405, 410-19 passim, 430, 622-23
Bulgakov, Sergei N., 262, 372, 623
Bulgakov, Valentin F., 372
Bulgaria: Greek rebels turned over to U.S.S.R., 92
World War II, Soviet émigrés, 85
Bunin, Ivan A., 220, 263, 623
Bunyachenko, Sergei K., 258/i, 623
Burkovsky, Boris, 8
Burnatsev, Mikhail, 244 Buryat-Mongols, 51
Butyrki (prison; Moscow), 26, 31, 125, 275, 277, 468, 489, 500, 605-07, 637
Solzhenitsyn in, 237, 239, 241-42, 248, 252, 260, 265, 267-68, 269, 271-80, 395, 594-615
Cadets see Constitutional Democratic Party
camps, 551, 559, 563-64, 576-77, 583, 589-90
ITL (Corrective Labor Camp), 248 number of prisoners, estimate, 595
OLP (Otdelny Lagerny Punkt; Separate Camp Site), 51
In Oper (Security officers), 551, 574, 618
PFL (Identification and Screening Camp), 248-49
Special Camps, 554-55, 566
VOKhR (Militarized Guard Service), 157, 249
see also transit prisons and camps; Tsarist regime, prisons and camps cannibalism (during famine), 183, 342, 343
Catherine II (Catherine the Great), Empress, 94, 247, 254/1, 281, 433, 500
cells see prisons, cells
Chaliapin, Fyodor I., 262
Charnovsky, N. F., 377, 381-82, 387, 389-90, 391, 623
Chavchavadze, Olga, 68
Chavdarov, 283, 294
Chayanov, Aleksandr V., 50
Chebotaryev, S. A., 108-09, 114, 115, 469
Chechens, 25, 84, 637
Cheka (VChK; Extraordinary Commission for Struggle Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage, and Speculation), 28, 30, 34, 36, 72, 300, 336, 617, 637
extrajudicial reprisal, 28, 300, 302, 307, 322, 326, 367, 435, 436
see also Kosyrev, F. M., trial; Revolutionary Tribunals